Map on the right is Cape Town, South Africa, and map on the left is Hamburg, Germany.
'radicalisme petit-bourgeois' = 'middle class radicalism'

heretic: 05/07/01

the whole first page is set up as a bit of a fractal. it's almost certainly solely for visual affect,
but it DOES say, "the endless line of splendor," and fractals are endless. seems like these people would've
included more detail if they wanted to express something as a fractal, though.

jessica:

clue: The Swedish (II on the second sheet) translates:
"You can expect van Riebeeck to cast anchor in Table
Bay two month after Pentecost under approximately
the same circumstances as those who "advised" in
1652. Scurvy among the crew cannot be avoided.
This is one of those difficult ventures that is
worth what it costs, even if the costs are sky-high.
Capetown exists today only because men with insight
were originally willing to invest in failure."
Here's some info about van Riebeeck:
Van Riebeeck, Jan (1619-1677), was the Dutch
commander of the first settlement at the Cape
of Good Hope in southern Africa. Jan Antoniscz
Van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg in the
Netherlands. He joined the Dutch East India
Company when he was 20 and was sent to Indonesia
in 1640. He also worked in Japan and Indochina.
Van Riebeeck was eventually sent home to the
Netherlands, after he was accused of private
trading. On the voyage back, the Dutch fleet
called in at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.
Van Riebeeck spent 18 days ashore and became
convinced that the cape could supply passing
ships with fresh produce.
Back in the Netherlands, the Dutch East India
Company offered him another opportunity. He was
sent to the cape to put his ideas into practice.
His instructions were to plant a vegetable garden,
build a protective fort, and trade cattle with
the local inhabitants. He arrived at the cape in
1652, and for the next 10 years, he worked hard
overcoming many obstacles.
In 1662, Van Riebeeck was transferred to
Batavia (now Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia).
In 1665, he accepted the post of secretary to the
Council of the Indies.

ashton 05/08/01:

Language man strikes again ...
Quotation: ci4
Language: Chinese
From: none
Translation:
I. (n) order; sequence ["yi1 ci4" -- one by one in due order.
"che1 ci4" -- train number. "wu3 ci4 lie4 che1" -- train No. 5]
II. (adj) 1. second; next: ["ci4 ri4" -- next day] 2. second-rate; inferior:
["ci4 pin3" -- goods of poor quality; defective goods]
III. (measure) ["san1 ci4" -- three times. "shou3 ci4" -- first time].
Quotation: "sol contra Gabaon ne movearis et luna contra vallem Ahialon".
Language: Latin
From: Latin Vulgate, Joshua 10:12
Translation: "Sun, stand still at Giberon, and moon in the valley of Aijalon".
Quotation: MXKYMT PTY / "m'chokimot pethi"
Language: Hebrew
From: Psalms 19:7.
Translation: "making wise the simple"
Quotation: "et ad haec quis tam idoneaus"
Language: Latin
From: Latin Vulgate, 2 Corinthians 2:16
Translation: "and who is sufficient for these things?"
Quotation: "Toi la plus digne de confiance parmi les filles d'Eve, joyau des
neiges, j'auais prefere voir tes yeux que toutes les cites du monde. Si les
mortels pouvaient t'aider maintenant, je ferais honte a Archimede et
deplacerais ce qu'aucun levier ne pourrait. Puisse Celui qui regne sur tout
daigner nous donner ,dans l'autre vie, la grace de comprendre pourquoi certains
ont recu la lumiere alors que d'autres ont ete laisses aux tenebres."
Language: French
From: Unknown
Translation: (from Babelfish) "You worthiest of confidence among, the jewel
daughters of Eve of snows, I [would prefer] to see your eyes that all the
[cities of world]. If the mortals could help you now, I would make shame has
Archimedes and [move] what no lever could. Can That which [rules] all to
condescend to give us, in the other life, grace to understand why some received
the light whereas others have [been] leashed with darkness. "
Quotation: "argyreais logchaisi mache kai panta krateseis"
Language: Greek
From: Unknown. Not from the New Testament.
Translation: uncertain. Something to do with fighting with silver spears
and with all one's strength. [Strong's nos: 693-696, 3057, 3163, 2904].
================================================================================
The Leitmotiv for this year is from Sirach 44:1. Sirach (also known as
Ecclesiasticus) is an apocryphal book found in Catholic Bibles.
================================================================================
Hamming distances are actually pretty simple. They're important in digital
signal processing, when you want to compute how similar two strings of binary
bits are. The hamming distance is the number of corruptions it would take one
string of bits to turn into another string. For example, 1010 and 1011 have
a "Hamming distance" of one; 1010 and 1001 have a Hamming distance of two,
and so forth. Some error-correcting codes exploit the fact that every valid
encoded string is of Hamming Distance three or more from the closest valid
string, hence being able to automatically correct one-bit errors.
================================================================================
Pi rears its ugly head in spades.
In the first box, we have four clues which all relate. Bailey, Borwein, &
Plouffe: used the PSLQ lattice algorithim to discover a cute little function
that generates the number pi, one hexadecimal digit at a time.

Moving clockwise from this box you'll notice the numbers comprising the border
are 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, and 6 ...
Below Cromwell you see five more digits: 5, 3, 5, 8, 9 ...
Carrying on to the next page ... above the radioactive decay sequence for
Uranium 235, we continue: 7932384 ... yadda.
Whoops. At 5923078, the Orphanage omits the digits "164062862" but continues
on with 0899862 ... etc.
The same thing happens on the next line. The digits "081284811" are omitted
between the digits "17253594" and "17450284" ...
================================================================================
Anedio Ranfagni -- physicist at the Italian National Research Council who
demonstrated a method for acheiving faster-than-light velocities in free space.
The INRC is in Firenze.

================================================================================
================================================================================
L.V. Hau -- physicist at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Demonstrated
a method for slowing the speed of light to 17 m/s in an Bose-Einstein
condensate.

================================================================================
... the room reservations at the Hotel California in particular be extracted
only as Blum Integers ...
Blum Integers are integers of the form n = pq, where p and q are both prime
numbers congruent to 3 mod 4.
3, 7, 11, 19, 23, and 31 are the first six primes congruent to 3 mod 4.
The Blum integers less than 100 are 9, 21, 33, 49, 57, 69, 77, and 93.
Blum integers are of some cryptographic interest.

================================================================================
Song #695 in the Episcopal Hymnal (note: the Orphanage Spellchecker was out to
lunch on this one) is entitled "By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered",
and was written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer while in Nazi prison at Shoenberg.

================================================================================
General thoughts:
Yes, I'm still of the opinion that the Mayday mystery is little more than an
elevated form of madness, a mere sesquipedalian form of amusement, and has no
rhyme, reason, goal, method, objective, purpose, or meaning beyond what you
find in it. The Orphanage doesn't help at all with their "suggestions". To
paraphrase Homer, I fear the Freaks even when they bear clues. I don't even
bother looking for patterns or correlations. There aren't any! =-)
I dare the Orphanage to prove me wrong. =-)
================================================================================

clue: I did a google search on aportion of the public key in the upper left corner and found a possible match at
http://adis.cesnet.cz/cgi-bin/lwgate/PROPAG-L/archives/propag-l.log9411/Author/article-4.html. The key in the upper
left corner is about a quarter of the way down in the encoded message. I don't know much about encoded messages,
but maybe you could take a look.
clue: Forget my last email. The text is actually a uuencoded message. I was able to cut it out and open it in
WinZip, but it's in a foreign language. Don't know which one, but I'm guessing Russian or Bulgarian.
Actually, given the URL (.cz) and some extra research, I think the message is in Czech.

anonymous 05.08.01

name: near a terminal
clue: Get somebody who can really speak French. The first sentence pretty much says: "Most trusted of Eve's
daughters, jewel of the snows, I would rather have seen your eyes than all the cities in the world." Babelfish is
good for translating street signs and cheese labels.

Jessica 05.09.01

clue: "Porcine extispicy"
Porcine = of or resembling a swine or pig
extispicy = Inspection of the entrails of sacrificial victims for the purpose of divination.
Hmmm...so their French dinner course seems to consist of West Indian blood pudding on "oakleaf"?? and baked
potatoes. Nice, eh?

bingo05.09.01

clue: Okay, did some talking with my resident pharmacy expert and here is what I've learned. cyclosporine,
mycophenolate mofetil and prednisone are all immuno-suppresant drugs traditionally used by those with organ
transplants.
Cyclosporine and prednisone are also used in treatment of auto-immune diseases and severe arthritis. The listed
dosage of cyclosporine would also not be unusual for chemo-therapy. Just a pharmacy note b.i.d. stands for twice a
day, that's just standard pharmacy notation so I'm not sure it alone is significant.
The most interesting information I was was able to learn was in regard to the mycophenolate mofetil (also called
Cellcept). This is the drug most commonly used in cardiac (heart) transplants and the dosage listed, 1500 mg
b.i.d., is the exact dosage given to such patients. I believe the whole statement is talking about a cardiac
transplant as the QRS voltage is the electronic signature of the heart, its measured when the valve in the atrium
closes. The final statement also indicates the heart, though an endomyocardial biopsy doesn't bode well for the
patient.

ashton 5.10.01

Interesting that April 4 and May 1 both reference Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Yes, I noticed that stuff was UUENCODED. Files that have lines that start with
"M" generally are. =-) Bry, is there a way you can get Dave to post us
the text? I think it's chaff, though, it's probably not important. (What
am I saying?! In contrast to the other things on the page which are,
presumably, important?)
"the endless line of splendor". That comes up a lot. As previously noted,
it's from that one poem by Vachel Lindsay, refering to Christianity.

Quotation: "Persta atque obdura"
Language: Latin
From: Horace, Sermonum 2:5
Translation: "Be steadfast and endure"
"By rust and corrosion ... yadda yadda yadda ... by whatever means necessary."
C.f. May 1 1988.
The pattern of new announcements coming out on May Day is well
known (I think ... I donno, anyone here suprised to learn that the
MayDay mystery has something to do with May 1?) I don't know if
anyone has noticed, however, the Winter Tour pages coming out
on the FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY DECEMBER SINCE 1990? I've checked
the unscheduled pages, but I haven't noticed any other similar
correlation.
I gotta get to bed. Pax tibi. =-)

hance - we noticed.
jade -e 5.10.01
OK, I'll try to come up with something more concrete in the morning, but here's my
two cents for my first look at this ad.

This may be blindingly obvious and simultaneously totally useless, but the quoted
section at the end of the second page that says "on subway walls and tenement halls"
is (at
least on the obvious-pop-culture-reference level) a lyric from Simon & Garfunkel's
song The
Sound of Silence. That song itself has way more levels than I care to contemplate at
1:30
in the morning, but I believe the relevant part is "And the sign said: The words of
the
prophet are written on subway walls, and tenement halls, and whispered in the sound of
silence." So presumably the LOC are being prophetic in their scrawlings.

Sometimes I feel like we must be dealing with Discordians or something.

hance: no offense, but I don't think discordians are this organized. :)
loungefly 05.10.01

clue: Translation of the German on the right side of the second ad:
1) Freude im Alltag = Joy in every day
2) Heute die zahlen, morgen = Today pay, tomorrow...
3) Das Gedanke wird nicht bewußt gedacht werden. = Thought will not consciously be
thought.

lysis 5.10.01

clue: The text on the upper left, that looks like:
M["!O8G)A>B!S=MAT82'_#OH-"C(N($IA:X(@:G-O=2!P&%M(#

================================================================================
Quotation: "im Feindesland"
Language: German
From: ADW 10/24/90
Translation: "in enemy territory"
================================================================================
"Determine the chronological coordinates by the
numerical occurrences of the essive case in the
afore-mentioned chapter, congruent with
{{59.4235N / 24.7203E}} and then execute the
limited subroutine as per the specifications of
9/20/2000."
After reading the Latin quotation of Joshua 10:12, my first
thought is, "wait a sec, there is no 'essive case' in Latin!
WTF are they talking about? I had to do some scrounging around
on the web to learn that use of the essive case is more a
Finnish-Baltic thing than anything else. Interestingly enough,
the coordinates given point to the city of Tallinn, Estonia,
right across the strait from Helsinki. Estonian has 14 cases,
one of them being the essive case. =-)

So I decided to take the Orphanage's instruction to
determine how many times the essive case appears in
Joshua 10. Since I lack an Estonian Bible at hand (nor
would it do any good -- I wouldn't be able to read it),
I looked for things that, read in English, would be
translated with the essive case -- the essive case being
the use of a noun to show what it is, or what is used as.
I found ten occurances of what I THINK are essive cases:
three of them appearing in the form "the Lord, the God
of Israel", and seven of them in the form "so-and-so,
the king of such-and-such country". They are:
Joshua 10:1 (x1)
Joshua 10:3 (x5)
Joshua 10:19 (x1)
Joshua 10:33 (x1)
Joshua 10:40 (x1)
Joshua 10:42 (x1)
I'm not sure what to make of this, except to go into Ivan Panin-esque
speculations about 10:19 and the "19-round metric", (hey, 19 is a number
with numerological significance in Islam and the Quran) or the numerlogical
or Christian importance of the numbers 3, 7, and 10.
The "limited subroutine as per the specs of 9/20/2000" is probably
their reference to the Phoneme Recognition / Word Recognition block
diagram on that announcement, but I'm at a loss at how to "execute" it.
================================================================================
While we're on the subject of 9/20/2000 ... regarding the coordinates
{{ 42.358002 N 71.062206 W }} where the plenary session is [was] to be held:
(btw, Bryan, you mistyped them. Good thing no one was sitting at the Dunkin
Donuts that day when all the real action was going on 25.9" -- two fifths of
a mile -- to the north!)
42N 21' 28.8"
71W 03' 43.9"

We're more looking at downtown Boston now. =-) Click on the link above, you're looking straight at the
Boston State House Building.

Bixby23 5.11.01

clue: Well, just as an addendum to Ashton's thorough definition of the Chinese character, I thought I'd chuck
in my own two cents and point out that it is also commonly used in Japanese, where it is pronounced "tsugi"
when not combined with other characters, and invariably means "next." I'm willing to bet that this holds true
for modern Chinese as well (somebody help me out here). My point is that I suspect more involved definitions
(defective goods, references to measurements) can safely be ignored as they are very likely archaic. My
apologies if this was already obvious to everybody and was little more than a post jam-packed with useless
info.
clue: Forgot to add that the address on the second page "fourth and mission 94103" is in San Francisco, and
the phone number goes to the Sony Metreon (sort of a high-tech playground), which contains a multiplex theatre
as well as the largest IMAX theatre in North America (thus the "showtimes" notice) I have listed the current
showtimes below in case anyone thinks this could be relevant somehow.

Allright, still not much but here we go:
ANSI X9.49: Title: Secure Remote Access to Financial Services for the Financial
Industry
Abstract: Defines the minimum security requirements for a secure and protected
exchange of information between a user and a financial service provider. The
protection offered will provide integrity for a message during transmission;
provide secrecy of the message during transmission; identify the rightful user
and financial service provider prior to and during data transmission; and
prevent repudiation of a message or transaction by either party.
That document costs $80 to download, I haven't been able to find a copy
anywhere... The ANSI X9 standards are the encryption standards used by most
banks. These standards include everything from good practices when dealing with
PINs to algorithms for 3DES and PKI infrastructure practices.
CRYPTO '87, pp 21 - 39: Special uses and abuses of the Fiat-Shamir passport
protocol [Abstract]
Mentions subliminal channels, apparently talking about problems with a proposed
protocol for encrypted passports.
The Quick Explanation: Zero-knowledge proofs of identity basically mean "The
bad guys are listening. I know the password, and you claim to know the
password, but how do I verify that you know the password without the people
listening hearing it." There are quite a few techniques for this, one of them
being the Fiat-Shamir protocol, which uses a random number and some fun math to
do this. Oh, and did I mention it relies on the special properties of Blum
Integers to work? This specific article talks about some problems with using
this system to verify Passports, since it apparently has some holes in it's
zero-knowledge basis that allows it to be used to transmit secret data during
verification (to- and from- who I don't know), but I'm not sure how this applies
to search engines.
CRYPTO '86, pp 171-185: How to prove all NP statements in zero-knowledge and a
methodology of cryptographic protocol design [Abstract]
Hamiltonian Cycles, among their more well-known uses, can be used as a truly
painful form of zero-knowledge proof... Search for "'Hamiltonian Cycle' NP zero
knowledge" in your favorite engine if you feel like melting your brain.
The Quick Explanation: "the last datablock received from Mistah Kurtz and/or
Morphy cannot be conclusively graphed as a Hamiltonian Cycle" means, roughly,
"We're using a time-intensive encryption scheme to verify who's sending us data,
and their last transmission didn't come out right." The Crypto citation seems
to bear out this interpretation.
I should have the full text of the two Crypto articles soon. (The UofA
subscribes to the Springer LINK service, so Sycraft is going to download the two
files on campus. I'll post them when I get them.)
Jesscia 5.11.01

Interesting to compare it with the Scientific American article sent to Repubgirl. What's with all the light
experiments lately, aside from the whole "time standing still" and time having a different meaning to God (a
day is as a thousand years) type thing...?
clue: Beneath the picture:
- Av. Paulista, 1450, the address of the Banco Mercantil de Sao Paulo in Brazil.
- Rue V. Cousin, Sorbonne University of Paris is here. Is there a bank along this street too? I can't find it
right off...
- 3/5 Leonidze, address of the National Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi.

I don't think the clue submital form liked my huge cut and paste. So here's a straight email.
Here's the text of the uuencoded message. It's definitely in Czech, but I can't find a good web translator.
* This message contains the file 'O.TXT', which has been
* uuencoded. If you are using Pegasus Mail, then you can use
* the browser's eXtract function to lift the original contents
* out to a file, otherwise you will have to extract the message
* and uudecode it manually.

clue: With regards to the Chinese Character / Japanese Kanji, my purpose
was just to do a first-level analysis, and leave second-order
interpretation up to the rest of the crew. Although the most
common use of ci4 is (III), you have to realize that no one at the
Orphanage is a native Chinese speaker. My *personal* interpretation
is that they were either trying to get at the idea of "time" (usually
shi2 [http://www.zhongwen.com/d/174/d201.htm]) or possibly "sequence"
(usually xu4 [http://zhongwen.com/d/167/d199.htm]). ci4 usually
refers to time as an occurance -- as in, "this is the first time I've
been to Seattle" or "I saw Evil Dead II three times", or "last time I
went to Seattle, I saw Evil Dead II". ci4 is more akin to "kairos"
without the connotation of "opportunity", whereas shi2 is almost
directly "chronos".
Meaning (II) isn't used nearly as often, and goes go back to the
classical meanings of "ci4".
I don't know Japanese, but I understand that when Chinese Characters
are imported into Japanese, they rarely lose their meaning, although
the pronounciation and use may be completely different.

ben 05.12.01

I attached the uudecoed file - It's a little tweaked but still readable,
I assume. I tried running it through the translator at
http://www.kieto.com/jester.html but the output was useless. That would
explain why it's hard to find automated translators for Czech.
We may just have to find somone to do it.

Looks like he/she is a Czech particle physicist!
Still can't translate the text, though...but it seems vaguely academic in tone to me.
Hope that helps.

Jessica 5.13.01

Okay, so the first sentence of the Czech says something along the lines of "To pitch the promotional ideas
to the faculty of the Math and Physics department of Charles University in Prague (Univerzita Karlova v
Praze).
Well, guess where Dr. Zbyçek Trka works! S/he is an associate professor at the Institute of Particle and
Nuclear
Physics.
Here's a link with address info:

Lutine Bell:
The bell of HMS Lutine , which sank in 1799. The ship was carrying a large amount of coin and bullion
(brasher doubloons, perhaps?), and the loss fell on the underwriters, who were members of Lloyd's of London .
When the bell was recovered during salvage operations it was taken to Lloyd's, where it now hangs. It is rung
(and business is halted) whenever there is an important announcement to be made to the underwriters. It was
formerly rung once if a ship had sunk and twice for good news.
If you are "under the aegis" of the Lutine Bell, then...what? You don't have to work? You're insured? Nice
to be insured in enemy territory, I suppose.

heather 05.13.01

... and I'm back. in case no one checked into it, using 'The Miraculous Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi
Algorithm'David Bailey, Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe have recently
computed the ten billionth digit in the hexadecimal expansion of pi. They utilized an astonishing formula
which enables one to calculate the dth digit of pi without being forced to calculate all the preceding d-1
digits. No one had previously even conjectured that such a digit-extraction algorithm for pi was possible.
Bailey, Borwein and Plouffe discovered their formula using the PSLQ lattice reduction algorithm. the formula
is surely notimportant, but it's on

knock yourselves out, and kick me if this stuff turns out to be relevant and not just filler

Mikey 05.13.01
Pelagianism = Denies original sin and affirms the ability of human beings to be righteous by the exercise
of free will. (Dictionary.com)

-------------

Hausdorff Spaces = Suppose X is some space, and that it's equipped with some topology Á. We say that X is
Hausdorff (or T2) provided its points can be separated from one another by open sets. That is, if x and y are
distinct points in X, we can find open sets U and V in Á with x in U and y in V, where U and V have no points
in common. Being Hausdorff essentially means that there are enough open sets to stop the points in X getting
'tangled up' with one another. --
here's
where I found this

prednisone q6h, 5mg means to give prednisone, a steroid, every six hours, five miligrams. I doubt this helps anyone

near a terminal 05.14.01

OK I checked with a faraway friend who grew up in Bois de Boulogne and she agrees that the first sentence
in the French comes out in English as "Most trusted of Eve's daughters, jewel of the snows, I would rather
have seen your eyes than all the cities in the world." She reads the rest of it to say "If mortals could
help you now, I would shame Archimedes (or put Archimedes to shame) and move what no lever can lift. In the
the life to come (French says 'the other life') may it please Him who rules all that we be given the grace to
understand why some were given light and others were left in darkness." My friend went on to say that it
sounds like a native speaker or at least someone who became bilingual living in or near Paris. She also
thought it was certainly written by someone who grew up speaking standard Parisian, "la langue du nord de la
Loire"--and had probably been to one of the universities. She wasn't sure why--"just feels that way." She
also asked what happened to the woman in question but I told her that it probably has some other meaning.
Another point on this page that someone smarter has probably already mentioned but I can't find it if they
did--if you hit the link for the Sony Metreon you'll find that they are showing A Knight's Tale. There is
reference to Chaucer's The Knight's Tale on 5-1-98. There is much earlier reference to Incept Date (like in
'84?)--so if we knew when the Metreon began showing A Knight's Tale, it would give us an Incept Date. That
might be the only point of the reference--it gives a way to supply numbers to the cybernetic program they are
running. That might also explain an ongoing method of cluing each other in on what numbers to plug in to
their programs. If they need to be covert for some reason they could appear to be crazy or at least
irrelavent. They probably are crazy but most insane people are horribly disorganized and have trouble
focusing. There seems to be much focus over a long time in these. On the pi mess--if you needed to specifiy
certain numbers and also needed a HUGE database then you could use that algorithm to supply x-y-z and so on.
I'm not sure this is as nuts as it appears but it could be just crazy. But then how do you explain the
correlations? Wish I could be more help.

hance - yes, you just summed it up - very crazy, but too many correlations.
dave 05.15.01

The text, "Alberich is agian working under the River.", is also in the September 17, 1987 announcement.
and
The first Lutine Bell reference is from 1/20/88. "IF Schrodinger has fallen within the aegis of
the Luitne Bell,..."
and
clue: "im Feindesland" was first used on 10/24/1990 as follows: "The last transmission of Capt. Morgan
contains a THIRD LEVEL ANAMOLY: unless visual confirmation can be made prior to the Winter Tour, it must be
assumed "Er ruht im Feindesland."

clue: The map in the lower left hand corner of the May 1, 2001 ADW appears to be Berlin, Germany
while the map in the lower right hand corner appears to be Cape Town, South Africa. You may
wish to verify this as many of the significant validating features on the maps have been
obscured, presumably by design.
In case it is helpful, here are links into the NIMA GeoSpatial mapping server for all maps
that appear in any of the Mayday texts to date. The server and associated database can
generate latitude and longitude coordinates for any of these regions and nearby features.
Incidently, it can also take in coordinates in a couple of different formats if there are any
positions still unidentified. Unfortunately, NIMA does not deal with street names very well,
so I have attached additional URLs where a street map would be more appropriate. You can
obtain additional geographic data for US locations, including conversion from zip code to
latitude and longitude, at

hance: Attached to thi message was 22k of links to maps for almost every page in the Mystery, which I am now
attaching on a per-page basis. Thanks! Awesome! :)

mikey 05.21.01

clue: This just may be a way-off guess, but if you look at the 2nd part of this page, there are two rows
of arrows either pointing up (1) or down (0)...for the first row, we get 0000 and the second is 1000,
which is a hamming distance of 1...this may be way off, but I can't figure out what else the arrows could
mean then a binary string type thing...

----

More on hamming distances...if you know the desired length of the string and the hamming distance
(this is assuming we are in binary), then the number of strings you can have is equal to:N!/( (N-H)!
* H! )where N = length and H = Hamming distance. Additionally, if you have two strings and xor them,
ie, turn all bits to 1 if not equal or 0 if equal, then the number of 1s remaining is the Hamming
distance.

Hamming distances do not only need to apply to binary systems. They can apply to any number base or
even letters (ie TONED and ROSES has a distance of 3)...I do believe that using another set would ruin
the equation which tells us the number of strings possible. Hamming distances also seem important in
doing evolution/population distribution over time/genetics, including comparing DNA strands.

I also found an equation which says the distance between two strings of binary digits is the summation
of the absolute value of Ai - Bi (sorry don't know how to get fancy here). This means, for our first
example 0000 and 1000, you get |(0-1)|+|(0-0)|+|(0-0)|+|(0-0)| = 1. Again, this doesnt work for other
bases, unless you make the absolute value just turn the number into 1 instead of -x. It looks similar to
the equation in the box to the left of "Hamming Distances" but my calculus is a bit rusty and I can't
remember if summations and integrals relate very well.

There are also large strings of (the same amount of) numbers, and I bet something interesting might
happen if we applied Hamming distances to them, or to any of the strings we've seen on pages before, but
the arrows thing is just a guess.

Just for fun, the hamming distance of the two strands of pi numerals is 6.

And I forgot to mention, Hamming distances are important in the computer world for error correction
when transferring data...

clue: It doesn't seem to be noted previously on this page that you received a letter or an email on
10-20-2000 which makes direct reference to the words under the music. They must put this maze of detail
together considerably in advance. That might explain the corrective pages. It could also explain why
there are so many details. If you need to extract a certain message without giving it away then you
would have additional data that could be referenced later.

bingo05.23.01

clue: More Pharmacy stuff regarding tricky's information on Prednisone. "prednisone q6h, 5mg
means to give prednisone, a steroid, every six hours, five miligrams."
Prednisone is usually given over a short period of time to reduce inflamation. It usually starts
at a high dose and tapers off. However, the listed dosage here applies to something different.
Prednisone is also used as an Immune system supressant (like in transplant, see my other entry on
the other drugs listed). When used in this way the listed dosage while small is not out of line at
all. Who knows, the whole drug thing may be a red herring, but it really does point to some form
of transplant surgery, particularly a cardiac transplant.

tricky 5.27.01

clue: Donated or transplant? Did you also notice how it says "do not be mislead by a reduction in the donated QRS
voltage? QRS refers to heart rythm. It is part of an electrocardiogram. Again, I doubt this helps much but there
it is.

cynic205.27.01

clue: If there is a bunch of chaff in this one, not many would know but maybe "carson" does, like he says in his
comment on this page. One thing that might make sense of it is the extraction method found in the most recent 5-1-2001
page. These people are clued in on math so they could have been using it last year too. For that matter, there are
many extraction methods and some of them go back as far as the Alexandrine Greeks. All the dates could be plugged
into a grid or a spreadsheet or even something of their own devising once you knew which method was in use. They
might only need a name or a number from each of the various ads and then they could do permutations and so forth. I
think these people would be hard to catch unless you could gain access to either their archives (like a database) or
sit in on a meeting. They don't seem to be shy about the general outlines of what they are doing but an old weary guy
like me increasingly suspects that they are doing two things at once: looking weird to keep casual inquiry to a
minimum and at the same time using a public medium to give the impression of, like Ashton said, "elevated madness."
Weird and mad are not the same, but if you put them together it would keep away, dare I say it, most people like us
and most people who would just pick up the paper. As long as they don't get into public trouble the various
authorities will leave them alone. Granted, this interpretration casts it more as a conspiracy than a game but it
seems to fit the facts or at least the facts that I can understand.

???? 06.07.01

name: some nig known as some nig known as some nig
clue: quite alright, it is an eleveanted form of madness,
with a goal of making us learn new things.

vinedresser 06.09.01

clue: Regarding Hirelings
Probably won't help much but some groups like the quakers have exspessed deep mistrust of the
establishment of a hireling ministry (for pay)Point being for a hired shepherd it is just a job and is
not as fully committed to his flock.

near a terminal 06.11.01

clue: OK back again for what may be the last time. Parts of this are beginning to worry me. I have
thought about this next remark since Memorial Day because I wanted to be sure before writing it down.
On Memorial Day I had to deal with a couple of young people and needed some way to entertain
adolescents.
So I figured "Kinght's Tale" would do the trick. Got a big shock while watching it because the hero or
main character directly refers to the Bible verse which appears in this ad, the one about the sun
standing still which makes time stand still. It worried me enough that I did a search on when Knight's
Tale opened in theaters and I couldn't come up with any date before May 11. This thing appeared on May
1 and must have been written before that. So how did they know? There is more disturbing stuff about
the movie mainly because it isn't deep or philosophical. It seems to be made for exactly why I went to
see it, adolescent audience. What I am trying to say is only clear if you see the picture but I
noticed a number of other things like the catholic clergy are mocked but the Bible and Jesus Christ are
held in honor or at least as far as I could tell. That would definitely send some kind of subconscious
protestant message to young people at the most impressionable point in their lives. Does anybody have
a clear idea of what these people are up to?

Carlos

clue: My idle babbling of the month for your enjoyment. It makes as much (or as little) sense as
everything else in this loony business, heck. SR=similarity ratio, CL=complete (cluster) linkage. These
are technical concepts used in multivariate statistical analysis, apparently the work of some Wishart
way back in the '70s. Don't ask me, my knowledge of statistics gives up way before multivariate. ;-)
I'm sure there is some web page about it, if anyone wants to suffer through the actual details.

anonymous 06.28.01

Philippians 3:13 in modern English is "Brethren, I do not consider that I
have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and
straining forward to what lies ahead"

ambrose 07.08.01

clue: The Greek that is printed in all uppercase letters is a quotation
from Pittacus and is generally given in English as "Know the time." It is
more accurate to say "Know the right time" or "Understand the opportune
moment."

Bilbo Baggins 08.01.01

name: Bilbo Baggins
clue: This is actually from somebody else but she is so creeped out that I was asked to send it. (The girl thinks
Hance is in with the freaks for sure, like he is a freak in regular people disguise.) So here is her clue and from
what little I can understand of these it does fit: the cross in this one is generally known as The Crusaders' Cross
BUT for that very reason it was adopted by the Huguenots. Not sure how that one is spelled but whatever spelling is
correct they were the militant French Protestants. Any French Protestant would immediately recognize it or so she
says and she spent a couple of years over there. She went on to say that to a traditional French Catholic, a Huguenot
is like a bomb-thrower or super-radical even though the emblem is from history. The past living in the present and
influencing minds living in our time. That does seem to fit themes that constantly recur in these but always in
slightly different forms. It also fits that for this outfit, they never really lose regardless of what happens
because the victory was settled before the war, much less the battle, began. So what if the Huguenots lost the first
time?

hance: for the eight millionth goddamn time, it ain't me. :P I run the site. Thats it. Although, technically, i
guess I am a 'freak in regular people disguise' but not in the context of this puzzle. :) At least I ain't a goth.
haskeller: 08.05.01
clue: The SR/CL could also refer to reflective integral lattices:
http://www.matha.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/preprints/95-02.html

clue: The 53589 nr below the mandala (cross) is the zip code to a First Federal office (click on the link and locate
the office in Stoughton) http://www.firstfed.com/locations

clue: Jessicas translation "as those advised in 1652" seemes to indicate some kind of decryptation figures:
07/04/1652 tot 06/05/1662 or something to do with April 6th : http://www.lichtenburg.co.za/1650.htm

Bob: 08.08.01
clue: F382447 Near the bottom. In 1999, this was the largest Fermat number that had been factored. Fermat numbers
take the form Fn=F^2^n +1. As you might imagine, they grow huge rather quickly. From the site of the guy who factored
the number:

"If one were to write out the actual base 10 value of the number F382,447 then it would have approximately
10^115,127.4974 digits!!

"If one were to write out the actual base 10 value of the number F382,447 in a square grid - at the rate of four
digits per inch in the horizontal and vertical direction - then the square would have side length measuring
approximatelye 10^57,545.58733 light years!!"

clue: I think there's an additional significance to the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi Algorithm reference. It's mentioned in
material
that was mailed to Bryan last year.
On Dec. 19, Bryan received two letters and some cash. Letter number 2 is a discussion of Catalan's constant and would appear
to have no particular significance. However, on the back of the letter, which is reproduced here:
http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/offsite/letter121900/letter2back.jpg
There's a reference to the "Miraculous Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi Algorithm." Oddly enough, if you follow Bryan's link to the
original Mathsoft discussion of Catalan's constant, the Bailey-Borwein reference is no longer there. (They may have just
changed the page.) The entire discussion that's reproduced in the letter to Bryan is still available here:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/catalan/catalan.html
So, you might want to go and re-examine the contents of that mailing:
http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/letter121900.html
By the way, is their a designated place to comment on the content of the deliveries and e-mails?
clue: Also, as Ashton points out above, the symbols above Godel's name (lower left in main ad) were also mailed to Bryan in
July of last year. There, however, the words "Ontologischer Beweis" appear above them. In addition to his more famous work,
Godel attempted an "Ontological Proof" of the existence of God, and apparently this is an excerpt from that work.

hance: I'm working on that, the ability to comment. version 2.0, which has been in the works forever...
Unknown: 08.15.01

clue: Dear Bryan,
Good to hear it sounds like you've been having a pleasant adventure on your trip!
Since you're out and about checking up on locations
from the mystery, I thought
this might help...
http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/calc/calc_options.html
Not sure, but you might
also need this...
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/celnavtable.html

near a terminal: 08.20.01

clue: Somebody who is too chicken to send it in herself asked me to put this one on
the table: Somewhere in the Old Testament there are lots of stories or histories about
how David became king and all his problems. She says one of those stories tells about
how he "feigned madness" when he was among a group of enemies. I know this is really
hazy but if somebody could find that one it might resolve a lot of the "they're nuts"
or "it is a long running joke." They seem to take the Bible very seriously and so that
might be a natural diversionary tactic that would appeal to all of them. I've heard
the story too but I can't remember where it is but something about David acted nuts
because he was in danger and he got out of the danger because the people who could have
killed him perceived insanity rather than strategy.

clue: This is more a question than a clue. Does the webmaster know some of these people personally? I notice that you have
Luther on the site logo and Luther seems to be consistently prominent. I ask because that would be one way to establish
coordinates. Like avery time Luther appears it means "Wittenberg" or the place he was born and I can't remember that one.
Then they wouldn't have to give three coordinates. Only two would appear and that would be really puzzling to anybody outside
the plot. Also by leaving out what should be there (like a third coordinate)it would help make them look nuts and harmless.

dave: 09.17.01

clue: Glad to hear your back. Reading your travel log was cool. I have a clue and then I have some extra info.
First the clue. I was wondering if the '19-round' reference proceeding the quote ,'Sol, contra Gabaon ne movearis et luna
contra vallem Ahialon.', might be a reference to the Jewish calendar which follows a 19 year lunar cycle. I'm reading the book
about the history of discovery and it contained a chapter on the definition of the year and month through history. Maybe some
of the other dates in the Mayday ads might make more sense on a lunar month time frame.
Second, the note. I made my way down to the UofA library and duig up some new Mayday ads from the early 80's. Can recall the
dates right now, but I get that info and send them to you. They're nothing specatular. They are very simple and contain
Chinese charaters.

hance: dave! goddamnit! email me! I lost your email! And I want those pages!
Bobby: 09.20.01

clue: Bryan,
I'm back in this biznatch. Regarding the number 114. It's prime factor decomposition is 2*3*19. In other words, 2*57.
Twice the Blum integer 57. Its divisors are 1,2,3,6,19,38,57,114. The Sum of the divisors is 240; the arithmetic mean is 30.
The harmonic mean is 19/5. (I included the harmonic mean because of the reference to 1/f noise).

near a terminal: 09.25.01

clue: If you look in the upper right hand corner with the Chinese symbol in it, the date 2/22/88 appears. Then look at that
one and it is heavy with Africa. Goes from Capetown as far north as Khartoum, which is in the Sudan. Whatever their
interests may be, I don't think they change over time. It has been 13+ years and the African references keep appearing. For
example, an explicit reference to Capetown is also in this one besides the reference to 2/22/88.

cynics: 10.03.01

clue: Could be that this is a shallow point but I think it bears considering. The face changes over time. The
new,very old ones are distinctly different. The ones in between are different from either the very old or the very
recent. From what so many people have dug about about these, I don't think any part of it is random and that
includes the faces.

clue: Mr. Hance, after a considerable trek and equally considerable waiting period, we believe this machine is one that
should appear on your log. The one designated by you as "the pimp" wished you to know that he is both alive and well. He is
still on detached service but hopes to successfully complete that set of orders within the next three weeks. Shortly after
his return he will be in contact with you. While located in KKKKKKKKK location, he read something on your site which
disturbed him and immediately submitted an operational request to The Orphanage. The request has been approved and we have
been instructed to transmit it. In regard to the announcement of 28 August 1991, be assured that NO reference was ever
intended or implied to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. NO participant in The Cause would ever, under any conditions or
circumstances, make a favorable allusion to John F. Kennedy. The Biblical reference cited by your correspondent was indeed
correct--but be CLEAR AND CERTAIN that no favorable reference to Kennedy was intended. Beyond this we are not authorized to
communicate.

near a terminal 10.09.01

clue: Look at the reference to "subliminal channel transmission". That has to have more than one level of meaning. Movies
and art in general work the most powerfully at the unconscious or subconscious level. We may never know but I think part of
these messages are geared to activate something in the reader. Almost reminds me of _The Manchurian Candidate_. That's
really extreme but I think the psychological drift in all these is very intentional but concealed. This is strictly for
laughs but when I was young and wild there was a song that had the refrain "guard your mind." I think these are designed to
go around the guards we all have in our heads.

cynic2: 10.27.01

clue: I've been flipping through these at random to test this idea and I think it makes sense. Do you think this could be
a Mensa plot? Plot is not too strong a word because they are definitely following some kind of plan and Mensa because it
isn't possible for any ordinary group of people to put these together. I know that Mensa holds regular meetings all over
the world and some of them might have decided to do something with their brains rather than just have parties and such.
Maybe a better question would be is it a good plot or a bad one?

hance: No offense to mensa, but I don't think they are this creative. That,
and I'd say the religious overtones of this puzzle would conflict with a few of their rules.
bob: 11.09.01

clue: Just to add to what Ashton said on the Leitmotiv, it seems to be more commonly translated as:
"Let us now sing the praises of famous men, our ancestors in their generations"

Bob: 11.20.01

clue: Regarding vinedresser's clue above: I never paid it much attention, because I thought few people would object to the idea
of hired clergy. But then I did some research on it. Some Christians regard anyone who professes to be a Christian but who does
not live up to Christian ideals as a "Hireling." See here:

Also, Jesus specifically uses the term to describe those who are not "good shepards" of their flocks, from KJV, John Chapeter 10:
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep,
and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
I think there's a pretty good chance that this is the source reference to the term Hirelings.
Also, regarding the Rocky & Bullwinkle note above: Does it strike anyone else as odd that a group that apparently venerates
figures as disparate as Luther, Mao and Godel would go so far out of their way to disavow any admiration for JFK?
Finally (for now), if you read Jessica's new Scriptures Excel file, does it not suggesst an agenda?

Bob: 12.09.01

clue: The cross at the center of the larger cross (the one inside the square and surrounded by four simple
crosses), is
not a Huguenot cross. For info on the Huguenot cross, see here (the Huguenot Society of South Africa, no less):
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8140/x-eng.htm
It is a Jerusalem cross and is, however, closely associated with the Crusades. Its symbolism has various
explanations;
see here:
http://www.cumber.edu/acad/rel/webpage/cross/crjer.htm
and here:
http://www.hollowdeckpress.com/cross.htm
The Jerusalem cross has also become associated with the idea of bearing another's burden. Interestingly, variations
on the Jerusalem cross appeared on Spanish coins that were minted in Mexico and Peru during the 1600s. Many of the
coins salvaged from the Atocha feature the cross. Notice that in the larger Jerusalem cross (with Luther, Calvin,
etc.), the positions that would normally be occupied by the four smaller crosses are replaced by the references to
Godel, Bismarck, etc.
The Greek under Luther, zoh et nekron, appears frequently and is apparently referenced on the next page in this
series. It's translated on at least one of the pages, but I don't have the translation available at the moment.
In the second ad, the Melville quote at the bottom is another slight misquote. It's based on the first line of
Chapter 82. I've included the second paragraph of the chapter for a bit of context:
"CHAPTER 82
The Honor and Glory of Whaling
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head of it so much the
more am I impressed with its great honorableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many great demi-gods
and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the
reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity."
So, they omit the words careful and true, and manage to refer to participants in an honorable and glorious
tradition (demi-gods, no less), which is, presumably, the way they see themselves.
Also in the second ad, to the right of the first pair of braces, Box 668 Angel's Gate. Box 668 and Angel's Gate
appear symmetrically opposite each other in Mayday 2000. There's also a reference to a PO Box 668 in 12/5/01, which
is associated with a bank in Martha's Vineyard. The only connection I can find between Angel's Gate and Martha's
Vineyard is that there's an Angel's Gate Lighthouse near L.A., and a number of lighthouses on Martha's Vineyard.
Grand Rounds, near top, second ad, appears to refer to medical "rounds" dedicated to a specific topic. Interesting
with all the heart transplant/rejection stuff later in the ad.

near a terminal: 12.10.01

clue: 2 points on this one and then I have to go back and pretend to be earning that bigtime government check.
Wish now I stayed private but at least I get to slip in and look at these. Number One: This is my gut talking so
take it for what its worth. I'd be careful about reading too much into the Melville quote as far as them having
grandiose ideas about themselves. I have to listen all day or at least many days, to the exact words people say
and many of the hearings deal with confused or delusional people. I don't think that's what we've got here, the
patterns are too complex for one thing. They may think they are really cool or they may not, but they would never
tell us. These are secrecy nuts and the texts say they expect their reward elsewhere. I think the Melville quote is
important for a page or an edition or a rare volume in a certain library.
Number Two: While driving myself crazy reading the correspondence for a clue on the most recent ad I came across
"7/15/00". Look at it because it has San Francisco and ferry boats. Right behind the ferry dock is the financial
district. The most recent ad connects places in banks, both numbered 668. You hyper-intelligent types can tell us
the complex parts but some of this is really simple but you have to know every detail. Only the Freaks are that
into it and I think that is why they have contempt for their opponents, they know that nobody else can master the
details even if they unravel the math and the physics. While you are on "7/15/00" look at Leter 4 in that batch.
This time the map is Los Angelse and it connects the 4 levels by means of ZIP codes. Also notice that it deals
with the sea shore and especially Long Beach where I think is "Angel's Gate" lighthouse.
Again, my point is that only the members can keep all this straight so they don't fear detection from anybody but
their most brilliant and dangerous opponents.

near a terminal: 12.14.01

name: near a terminal
clue: Webmaster, I fouled up on a clue and you may want to transfer the clue on the SF ferry maps to 99-may1. I'm
more convinced than ever that the one who signs "Bob" is probably right about the boats in San Francisco harbor and
especially about the routes for the ferryboats because of the maps that were sent to you of the SF harbor. A
simple approach to giving on-the-spot directions would be to put a couple of members with transponders on selected
ferryboats. Then the others could track the route and know if they were supposed to show up at the Sheraton or the
Hilton and so on. (I don't mean the transponders would take you there but that the design made by the tracked
routes would point to some location. Unless you were an insider, even picking up the data would be completely
meaningless. When they got to the hotel or whatever there could be a sign in the lobby, "Marin County Archaeology
Club, Novato Chapter" or something else totally harmless and uninteresting. Then the members could go quietly and
individually to whatever room was on the sign and nobody would ever know.)

hance: remind me which pages those ferry maps are on again?
cynic2: 12.19.01

name: In contrast to "near a terminal" I wonder if "subliminal channels" does not literally refer to "Crypto 87"
and something that appears in those meetings.
clue: (In a hurry and I messed this up, webmaster. The message is where my name should go.) The name is cynic2
and I continue to wonder if we shouldn't be more literal on many of these scholarly references. Almost nobody
could check all of them especially over all these years. You could communicate anything you wanted to if the whole
database is used and the point is that almost all of the references would be literal. To me that is a very
sensible approach because I certainly can't run down "Crypto 87" even if I wanted to catch them and if I did, I'm
not sure that would be good for my health.
Johnny: 01.11.02

can somebody definte "exteroceptive correlation"?
clue: can somebody define "suborned"?
i think it means that the bad guys got somebody to talk or they figured out a way to decode something but probably it was
somebody cracked or changed sides.

blahedo: 01.18.02

clue: Sort of obscure, but hopefully relevant: the Jerusalem cross is the symbol adopted by a network of Roman
Catholic retreats for high-school students called... wait for it... "Kairos". There may not be any more to it than that.
The retreat program has existed at least since the early 90s, possibly longer. I'm having a really hard time finding
further information online, as search results are dominated by retreat dates at various high schools.

Jumbo: 02.01.02

clue: The stuff with the Russian letter in between prednisone and Angels Gate I'm pretty sure is a Russian publishing
notation but not used in that form anymore. It denotes edition and publication details I think but I don't know enough to
decipher this one. It looks to be rather old and is certainly Soviet issue.

near a terminal: 02.05.02

clue: What is the mathematical demonstration in the upper right hand quadrant on the first page? Nobody has said much about
that and it is certainly beyond me but I notice it starts out with a reference to 4.

carson: 02.21.02

clue: blahedo/bryan: the first time i saw mention of kairos, i thought the same thing in regards to the high school
retreats. salpointe does it, hance, but i looked into it and there's really no connection. even their translated meaning of
the word is distorted from the translations given by other folks here.

mork - 06.10.02

clue: This continues the "magic squares" form of analysis. Tbink about all the different languages that occur in these things.
Then think that in every ad they come in a different order. The order itself could specify many forms of information but one
obvious one would be the various forms of "magic squares" which are 3 by 3, 4 by 4 and so forth. So count the languages and that
gives you a specific type of magic (a particular order of magic square) and the sequence of the languages would give you numbers in
the squares and all sorts of other permutations.

cynic2: 06.08.02

I just looked again at the Ranfagni cite which is found below. I also just read the strange letter about alchemy. If you
think about making dyes from coal tar and tanks out of porcelain or at least porcelain-like material which is the very latest in US
and NATO tank design, it would fit closely with what the old alchemists hoped they could do. In other words I am not sure that
literal alchemy with some old boy sitting up at midnight with a raven and a skull is what these are about. On the other hand I
think they do intend _alchemy-like transformations._ I know just enough about Tibetan meditation in its more extreme form to know
that some of the results in inter-personal communication rival speed-of-light communication. If you don't think so that is your
business but I suspect these people know a good bit about it and are doing something transformational, which may explain any
apparent connexion with alchemy.

near a terminal: 09.11.02

name: near a terminal
clue: I said something like this once before and it is really bugging me today. The apparently personal reference to some
"lost love" fits standard theory in half a dozen fields: the sense of loss makes for action. Palestinians blow up Israelis
(they took our land), the Israelis retaliate with more settlements (God gave us this land and you Arab bastards are squatters)
and so on. My point is a little difficult to make clear but the "romantic" threads that occasionally appear do fit with the
deep physics: action motivated by something at a distance that has no clear connection. For example: Shakespeare writing poetry
about "the dark lady." He really hated the bitch but he also desired her to the point of obsession--she is not at hand when he
writes and that is why he wrote. She pulled him by being absent. Action at a distance. I hope one of your smarter people can
make this more clear but I think it fits the nuclear and gravitational references.

CTFotoman: 05.05.2004

Maybe too late - but never know
U235 is what was used in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima (Fat Man)
U238 was what was used in the bomb that was dropped on Nakasagi (Little Boy)
By no strange coincidence, the development of these weapons was known as "Project Trinity"

Matt 06.24.2004

The line of calculus about hamming distance is the definition of some sort of metric. In its simplest sense, a metric gives
the "distance" between points in a space (e.g. the 2-dimensional metric for euclidean space is d(a,b) = sqrt(a^2+b^2), i.e. the
Pythagorean theorem)
Again we say "Orate pro nobis" (pray for us) at the end.

alan 10.18.2004

Kennedy was a Catholic. My suspicion is that the Mayday folks disapprove of Catholics on principle.
The "Hirelings" clue (paid Christian leaders who do not care for their flock) makes sense, because it is in line with the
"Pelagians" reference. "Pelagian" is a term of derision used by hard-core Calvinists (Dutch Reform et al.) for those who believe
in free will as a part of salvation (such as standard Lutherans).
I think the cross with the names is a simple quadrant coordinate system. You figure out what the names represent, and then you
can locate information in a quadrant (the Luther/Adolphus quadrant, or the Cromwell/Calvin quadrant).
Here's a basic interpretation:
Luther / Calvin - Spiritual
Cromwell / Adolphus - Temporal
- Calvin is opposite of Pelagius.
Near A Terminal: I don't think there is a story about David feigning madness. There are two stories that your friend might have
been thinking of. The first is actually a story of the previous king's madness. David is playing harp for Saul, the old king,
and Saul has an "evil spirit" come upon him and he throws a spear at David. David dodges and the spear misses. (1 Sam 18:8-12, 1
Sam 19:9-10)
The more likely story she's thinking of is when David is dancing in front of the Ark of the Covenant as it is returned to
Jerusalem. His wife, the daughter of the aforementioned Saul, looks out her window and is appalled. When he shows up, flushed
and happy, she bawls him out: "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, disrobing in the sight of the slave girls
of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!" David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father
or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel-I will celebrate before the LORD. I will
become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will
be held in honor." (2 Sam 6, also in 1 Chron 15:27-29)
Hamlet, on the other hand, DID feign madness. "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a
handsaw." Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

alan 10.22.2004

Boy do I feel dumb. I wrote in a few days ago saying that there were no stories of David acting insane to get out of
danger. Of course there's a story about David acting insane, as Near A Terminal's friend says. In fact, it's referred to in the
June 16th, 2004 text. I Sam 21:13... In fact, I can't help wonder if the inclusion of that Biblical reference was to suggest
that Near A Terminal is on the right track...

Paul 12.19.2004

More on Huguenots. Half the Afrikaans people in South Africa are descended from Huguenots. SA was one of the places
Huguenots fled to, since it was a protestant (Calvinist) outpost then. The wine producing regions around Cape Town, especially
Stellenbosch, Franschoek and Paarl have _massive_ Huguenot roots in language, religion, culture and surnames. Heck, Franschoek
literally means "French Corner". Also, that map of Cape Town is fairly recent (less than ten years), as it has the Table Bay Hotel
on it.

Burrito 12.19.2004

"3) Das Gedanke wird nicht genug..."
This is not correct in german. Every 4 year old native german speaker would correctly say: "3) Der Gedanke wird nicht genug..."
I'm german and he is not, imho. :)

Eri 07.13.2005

Here's part of an abstract of the Garman and Kohlhagen article, which appears to be available online for a fee from
sciencedirect.com:
"The present paper develops alternative assumptions leading to valuation formulas for foreign exchange options. These valuation
formulas have strong connections with the commodity-pricing model of Black (1976) when forward prices are given, and with the
proportional-dividend model of Samuelson and Merton (1969) when spot prices are given."
Foreign exchange is mentioned in one of the early messages here, http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/friend3.html
"Ask you buddies on the Web how much foreign exchange be slappin' from palm to palm, in just one mother-grabbin day." The answer,
according to Wikipedia, is $2 trillion. The message also mentions Archimedes and his lever ("Give me a place to stand and I will
move the earth!") This announcement mentions Archimedes' lever too. (And you also received a package that included a picture of
Archimedes' screw.)

Juls 01.30.2006

Re. The Greek "Argureais logchaisi machou kai panta krataeseis" - "Fight with silver spears, and them shall
prevail in all things" cited as the reply of the Pythian Oracle to Philip of Macedon, it was used by Lord Byron as a
subheader for his work 'Granta. A Medley.' "silver spears" appears to be a metaphor for bribes. I won't post the text
of the poem as it is some 25 verses long, it can be read at the link below. I recommend reading it as it seems to
relate to other items in the announcements, esp. the quote from Bismarck (although I have only quickly scanned it so
far).
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/3485/
A little more on the Greek - Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable gives: "With silver weapons you may
conquer the world" is what the Delphic oracle said to Philip of Macedon, when he went to consult it. Philip, acting on
this advice, sat down before a fortress which his staff pronounced to be impregnable. "You shall see," said the
king, "how an ass laden with gold will find an entrance."

I mentioned previously that all the Pi numbers in the May Day 2001 announcement add up to
1947. If you multiply each of the digits of 1947 (1*9*4*7) you get 252 (12*21). This could also
be 21*12, or a reference to Revelation 21:12 about the the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2).
Rev. 21:12 "And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels,
and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:"
(KSV) see Ezek. 48:31-34
Also, if you reverse 12 to get 21, a new reference could be Revelation 21:21.
Rev. 21:21 "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the
street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass." (KJV)
Here is the continuation of chapter 21.
Rev. 21:22 "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of
it."
Rev. 21:23 "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory
of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." (Is. 24.23)
Rev. 21:24 "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of
the earth do bring their glory and honour into it."
Rev. 21:25 "And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night
there." (total light)
Rev. 21:26 "And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it."
Rev. 21:27 "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever
worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." (KJV)

Luxor1 08/02/2015

Typo? It refers to Aug 28th 1988, a date with no known advert, however there was one on Sep 28th 1988.